Never mind. Let’s get on with the easy stuff. The neck! Attachment : IMG_8927.JPG Attachment : IMG_8928.JPG Attachment : IMG_8930.JPG

By now, I had made two new moulds for back and front with 4 layers of 3mm MDF: i.e. an arch of around 12mm rather than 15mm as previously. And with gentler curves. So, the back went into the vacuum p...

@tv101 I’m making this up as I go along. It just seemed like a simple way to persuade the joined veneers not to split along my dodgy glue line. As usual, I was wrong.

And some people (not me, obviously, but "some people") say that your videos aren't exciting!! Particularly highlight for me was from 0:42 to 0:51 - great work! What's the rationale for leaving the v...

@jamesbisset So, just for you, here’s some video of a vacuum pump. That looks like it might be successful this time, fingers crossed.

Thanks for this @jamesbisset. 🎶🎸🙏🙂

Turns out some of you have short attention spans and don’t like all this talk of veneers. So, just for you, here’s some video of a vacuum pump.

That's *more* disappointing than the split & bubbled veneers. 🙁 Are you sure you're actually in the right workshop?

Attachment : IMG_8912.JPG Hmmm... let’s see... Attachment : IMG_8913.JPG Nope. Well, that’s a little disappointing!

@jamesbisset Thinking out loud here: In 3D modelling, you usually build the shape and then wrap it in a texture - often a high res tiled photo of wood or bricks or whatever. You could probably use a...

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@jamesbisset I always thought you had the hump about something just couldn’t work it out, so I’m clear on what it is now thanks

@jamesbisset Nice work James. Really looking forward to this one progressing. 🙏🎶🙂🎸

@jamesbisset Can you see what it is yet? Once the back and front is on, is the cutaway going to trap the mould in place? I've been making the moulds for my acoustic and was wondering if that would ...

It was at the point where we decided to use the mould as a jig, that I realised I’d made the most profound, blindingly obvious mistake right at the very beginning of this build. And no-one seems to ha...

Finally getting down to the actual building of this guitar! Unlike solid sides, these laminations have rough, uneven edges and are not yet cut to size. So one edge was sanded flat on a sanding board, ...

@jamesbisset On another build, I’d be tempted to try the two internal layers at 30°-45° and 315°-330°. But I haven’t really thought through the implications of that. I've seen ply laminated dinghy ...

I’m using three layers of knife-cut veneer and one sawn veneer for the face, all made by joining two pieces. Of the three knife-cut veneers, the second layer is perpendicular to the rest. On another b...

@jamesbisset Sure enough, the next morning revealed that the face veneer (1.5mm thick) had opened up along the glue line. I had another thought this morning, are the joints in the layers all on the...

@rocknroller912 Another takeaway from this project is that two pack urea-formaldehyde resin is nothing like Titebond or other PVA based glues. It sets overnight but it cures over days, maybe weeks. A...